Fabrosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Fabrosaurus"
fossil_range = Early Jurassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
familia = Fabrosauridae
genus = "Fabrosaurus"
genus_authority = Ginsburg, 1964
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "F. australis"

"Fabrosaurus" (pronEng|ˌfæbroʊˈsɔːrəs FAB-ro-SAWR-us) (meaning "Fabre's lizard" in honor of Jean Henri Fabre (Greek "sauros" = lizard)) was a genus of herbivorous dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic (Hettangian to Sinemurian stages 208 - 196 mya). As the only fossil known of it is a partial jawbone with three teeth, "Fabrosaurus" is a "nomen dubium" and may in fact be the same as "Lesothosaurus".

"Fabrosaurus" was around 1 meter long (3.3 ft) and 0.3 m (1 ft) high . Little else can be inferred from the scanty remains. It was named by paleontologist Leonard Ginsburg in 1964. The type species, "F. australis", is named for the location of the fossils in Lesotho, Southern Africa.

References

* Ginsburg, L., 1964, "Decouverte d’un Scelidosaurien (Dinosaure ornithischien) dans le Trias superior du Basutoland", Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris, 258; 2366 - 2368

External links

* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a7b78e.htm "Fabrosaurus" in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia] at Dino Russ' Lair